‘Costs of Living' Exhibition, 2024
Dates: Tuesday 30th April – Sunday 5th May 2024
Opening Times: 10.00am 17.00pm
Venue: 44AD Artspace, 4 Abbey St. Bath. BA1 1NN
COSTS OF LIVING
Our exhibition features the work of 15 photographers, including associates from the UK, Poland and Zimbabwe. They have employed their local and historical knowledge, and their instinctive ‘eye’ to explore the many facets of the costs of living. Via the lens of race, gender, disability and age, they examine the consequences through class, wealth, housing, and physical and mental health outcomes. We’ve attempted to make vital connections across time and place by including images that reach back decades, focusing on diverse communities across the world, taking us on a journey that’s brought together surprising and poignant stories.
THE PROJECT
What does ‘cost of living’ mean? It is, of course, different for each of us, and Wikipedia defines ‘cost of living’ as “the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living”. But we intuitively have an idea of what lies behind and beneath the headline.
Although currently in the daily news, the issues and consequences around the ‘cost of living’ have, of course, always been with us. We tend to define it in purely economic terms, and money does shape life expectations, choices and chances, alongside factors such as race, gender, disability and age. The effects and consequences can, though, be expressed through class, wealth, housing and health outcomes, etc.
THE LOCATION
The exhibition venue 44AD Artspace is situated in the centre of Bath and the show will run for a week from 29/04/24. All chosen images will be featured on our website and printed in a souvenir exhibition zine. In addition, images that do not make the final exhibition will also have a presence on the website, an exhibition slideshow and in the zine.
